Hint: What you are when you wake up in the morning.
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First Letter: R
Around the beginning of March, I decided to re-commit to walking 10,000 steps a day.
Around the beginning of April, I jumped that up to 11,000 steps a day.
Good results so far. Slightly lower blood sugar and my weight is down by several pounds.
But for the beginning of May, I reconsidered the "add an extra thousand steps a day" formula.
Steps are time, and I already commit around an hour a day specifically to walking (above and beyond the steps I take in the normal course of getting things done). Usually in two 30-minute dedicated outings.
Unless I considerably pick up my pace, which is already fairly brisk, there's a limit to how many steps I can take in x minutes. Once I get below 200 pounds for the first time in 25 years or so, I may try to work some running into my daily step count, but between bad knees and an old lower back injury, I have to get the weight off first for it to be doable.
If I could figure out a way to get work done while walking, heck, I'd walk all day. It's been a few years since I did more than 15 miles or so at a stretch, but I'm sure I still could. I found out in the Marine Corps that I'm a genetic freak in that respect. If I'm in anything approaching good shape I can start walking and not stop until told to, with as much weight as I can carry hanging off me. But absent some kind of cool augmented reality glasses with a bespoke work setup built into them, when I'm walking, all I can really do is, um, walk.
So instead of taking more steps per day, I'm sticking to 11,000 steps ... while carrying barbell plates in a backpack on those dedicated walks.
Just got back from the first, one-hour, 2.x-mile test walk with 22 pounds (four 2.5kg plates) in the pack. Not only am I none the worse for wear, but the weight tends to correct my posture such that my back is hurting less than usual (good) and my quads are complaining some (good).
Hint: Edemic in appearance.
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First Letter: P
